Canada prime minister go to a meeting with the Prime Minister Mark Carney In Saskatoon, Monday armed with their wishes lists for major “nation construction” projects that could support the economy in the face of an American trade war.
Carney asked the Prime Ministers to spend five suggestions for national infrastructure projects, and Monday’s meeting will aim to identify those that will make the final cup to be accelerated using the legislation that Ottawa could introduce this week.
The conversation takes place in the context of an ongoing trade war with the United States, a debate renewed on separatism in Alberta and a push to decompose interprorcal commercial obstacles to encourage more trade between the provinces and less dependence on trade with the United States
This thrust already had a feeling of emergency, after several months of unpredictable tariff measures by President Donald Trump, but obtained another injection of reality on Friday, while Trump indicated his intention to double the already damaged prices on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% on June 4.
The Minister of Trade Canada-US, Dominic Leblanc, said Ottawa that Ottawa “took note” of this new plan on Saturday and remained “resolved” to defend Canadian workers and communities.
“We can give ourselves much more than the United States cannot remove us,” he said on X. “This is why this Monday, the Prime Minister will meet the ministers of Saskatoon with a single objective-build a Canadian economy from the age of thirteen and obtain major national construction projects built more quickly.”
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The Federal Government develops what it calls a bill on “national interests” to accelerate a small number of projects to strengthen the nation with a rationalized regulatory approval process as a substitute for exams under the Impact Evaluation Act.
What projects are the main subject of debate on Monday, by emphasizing the critical exploitation of minerals, energy and ports.
Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford said on Friday that his priority was the exploitation of “Ring of Fire”, a region about 500 kilometers north of Thunder Bay, Ontario, which contains massive deposits of critical minerals. Another priority is to build a new nuclear power plant in the province.
Ford said he thought Carney would choose some priorities across the country that would have a major impact.
“You have to be the pipelines,” said Ford, adding that Canada can no longer “count on the United States” as the main energy customer.
Ford said he thought Carney wanted to work in collaboration with the provinces and that the Prime Minister of Saskatchewan, Scott Moe, told him on Friday morning that he was delighted to organize the event.
“I think that a priority is to bring together the whole country,” said Ford. “The previous government and the previous Prime Minister have not shown enough love, in my opinion, at Alberta and Saskatchewan. We must be a united country. “
Moe proposed to welcome the meeting when he spoke with Carney shortly after the federal elections. Moe said in social media in May that it would be the first meeting between the Prime Minister and the Prime Ministers held in his province in 40 years.
The rally occurs both while Saskatchewan and Manitoba have declared states of emergency on the province level while forest fires threaten the communities in remote northern regions. In Manitoba, 17,000 inhabitants have been forced from their home in recent days, while more than 4,000 people in Saskatchewan have had to evacuate.
In a letter in mid-May to Carney, Moe launched 10 policy changes which he declared that the federal government should make to reset the Ottawa relationship with Saskatchewan.
Its requests include the start of negotiations with China to eliminate its prices on Canadian food products, the abrogation of the oil and gas emissions ceiling, widening the capacity of pipelines and construction trade and economic corridors across the country.
“Your government has the capacity to move forward on these 10 elements quickly, which would clearly signal a new more positive relationship between Saskatchewan and the federal government that we have had for 10 years,” said the letter.
In May, Susan Holt, the first Brunswick, shared on social networks the priorities of its province for national construction projects, including critical mineral projects which are ready to move now.
She said that New Brunswick ports are “ready to increase national and international trade with additional investments” and that the province is a leader in the construction of modular houses, ready to “exploit investments to combat the national housing crisis”.
The Prime Minister of Manitoba, Wab Kinew, also sent a letter to Carney in May to present a federal-provincial partnership on several projects, including a commercial corridor through the port of Churchill, establishing indigenous “fair trade zones” and developing infrastructures of critical minerals. In his letter, Kinew called his province “Costco of critical minerals”.
The office of the Prime Minister of Alberta, Danielle Smith, refused to provide a declaration before the meeting, saying that the Prime Minister had clearly explained her priorities for the federal government in recent weeks.
British Columbia will be represented at the meeting by Deputy Deputy Minister Niki Sharma, while Prime Minister David Eby left on Saturday for a 10-day commercial trip to Asia. The EBY office said that he had reserved his trip to the discovery of exchanges in Japan, South Korea and Malaysia before the programming of the first meeting of ministers, and that virtual attendance is not possible due to the time difference.
A letter from May 1st from Eby to Carney cited four “priority domains” which declared required a closer partnership between British Columbia and Ottawa: the dispute during flexible wooden wood, efforts to rationalize rail and commercial corridors, clean energy and critical mineral projects and the affordability of housing and the homeless.
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